(1818) Amos Tucker Was In His Element

“The Jungle Cat” Amos Tucker of Salem out and lunged at the Malays of Sumatra (1934, 1936); Yankee Ship in Pirate Waters

Date:

01/14/1931

Size:

36″H x 30″W

Medium:

Type:

illustration

Published:

Holland, Rupert Sargent. Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith-Company, 1931: cover, facing 224. caption: Amos Tucker was in his element now as he leaped and wheeled and cut and lunged.

Holland, Rupert Sargent. Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1931: cover, facing 224. caption: Amos Tucker was in his element now as he leaped and wheeled and cut and lunged.

Cordingly, David, ed. Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea. Atlanta: Turner Publications Inc., 1996: 185. caption: Another interesting piece by Frank Schoonover, this one dating from 1921 and entitled A Yankee Ship in Pirate Waters. An American seaman appears to be under attack from native pirates in Caribbean or Far Eastern waters and is using the butt of his pistol as a club during the close fighting on the deck of his ship. In the early nineteenth century the Caribbean became particularly dangerous and anarchic with thousands of attacks being carried out on merchant ships without provocation as revolutions spread through the region.